VMware is the most unusual and unexpected player in the industry to ship a Linux distribution. Here is an analysis of what forced the virtualization giant to make this move. Not long ago, VMware was a ...

At the core of any DevOps initiative is the judicious employment of containers and microservices, which dramatically speed up and simplifying the jobs of developers and operations teams alike. While ...

Containers are a small, fast, and easy-to-set-up way to deploy and run software across different computing environments. By holding an application’s complete runtime environment, including libraries, ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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A few weeks ago on a Saturday morning I tried to pay a medical bill online and received the following message: Sorry! In order to serve you better, our website will be down for scheduled maintenance ...

It appears enterprise IT teams are having it both ways, a recent survey finds. Typically, microservices -- and accompanying containers -- are associated with newer, cloud-centric applications. But ...

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Today organizations large and small are exploring the adoption of cloud-native software technologies. “Cloud-native” refers to an approach that packages software within standardized units called ...

There's not much new in the world of malicious hackers raiding online software. Most attacks follow the same basic approach, and software developers are leaving their applications open to being ...